Untangling Trump’s Syria Policy
The U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump, is expected to uphold sanctions against the Syrian regime, adopt a hawkish stance against Iranian influence in the country, and slash aid funding. It is less clear how the new U.S. administration might deal with the presence of U.S. troops in Syria, the Arab rapprochement process with Damascus, and how Donald Trump will navigate his relationship with Erdogan and with the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria.
